So now I will apologize, because what I meant to be agreement with you somehow came across as the opposite. Diplomacy Fail.
My father had a regrettable habit of voting straight party ticket, uncritically accepting any candidate regardless - so long as he was running as a Republican. Just so, the people I was speaking of hate Republicans just as uncritically. (The demagogues were tooling up to oppose anyone Trump nominated to the SCUS, literally had mob placards protesting “XX” - name to be written in. Anyone Trump nominated - the individual’s qualifications were irrelevant.)
These are the people you were warning against, and to whom I was referring. They don’t care whether GHWB was a good man or a good President. He was a Republican. Republicans are evil.
That’s all they need to know.
[Ironically, the idea that as the bearer of future citizens a woman’s body must be considered the responsibility and therefore the property of the government, was the Progressive view back in the 1920s. “Liberal Fascism” is a thing. ]
The Next Day
So now I will apologize, because what I meant to be agreement with you somehow came across as the opposite. Diplomacy Fail.
My father had a regrettable habit of voting straight party ticket, uncritically accepting any candidate regardless - so long as he was running as a Republican. Just so, the people I was speaking of hate Republicans just as uncritically. (The demagogues were tooling up to oppose anyone Trump nominated to the SCUS, literally had mob placards protesting “XX” - name to be written in. Anyone Trump nominated - the individual’s qualifications were irrelevant.)
These are the people you were warning against, and to whom I was referring. They don’t care whether GHWB was a good man or a good President. He was a Republican. Republicans are evil.
That’s all they need to know.
[Ironically, the idea that as the bearer of future citizens a woman’s body must be considered the responsibility and therefore the property of the government, was the Progressive view back in the 1920s. “Liberal Fascism” is a thing. ]